Conservative media sifted through the emails, stripping individual sentences and phrases out of context and spinning them to look sinister, as though scientists were coordinating and manipulating results.
No fewer than
five separate investigations later cleared the scientists of any wrongdoing, but by then, for a large class of right-wing media consumers, it was already settled history, part of shared lore.
“What this fraud, what the uncovering of this hoax, exposes,” he said, “is the corruption that exists between government and academia and science and the media. Science has been corrupted. We know the media has been corrupted for a long time. Academia has been corrupted. None of what they do is real. It’s all lies!”
He called these institutions — government, academia, science, and media — the “Four Corners of Deceit.”
So based on a lie, he got you to swallow this entire thing. Today, you hate Government, Academia, Science and the Media.
Rush/Trump have you all brainwashed.